"IT TAKES A 'MALTA*' TO STOP JUST EXISTING AND START LIVING AGAIN."--Charles Swindoll
*.-A great deal of suffering
"I [GOD SPEAKING], EVEN I, AM HE THAT COMFORTS YOU. WHO ARE YOU, THAT YOU SHOULD BE AFRAID OF A MAN THAT SHALL DIE, AND THE SON OF MAN WHICH SHALL BE MADE AS GRASS; AND YOU FORGET THE LORD YOUR MAKER WHO STRETCHED FORTH THE HEAVENS, AND LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH...?"
--Isaiah 51:12,13a
"THEREFORE, MY BELOVED BRETHREN, BE STEADFAST, IMMOVABLE, ALWAYS ABOUNDING IN THE WORK OF THE LORD, KNOWING THAT IN THE LORD YOUR LABOR IS NOT IN VAIN."
I Cor. 15:58
"BE ON YOUR GUARD; STAND FIRM IN THE FAITH; BE COURAGEOUS; BE STRONG; LET ALL YOU DO BE DONE IN LOVE."
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